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margins. Berry glossy, bright when young, red when ripe. Piper 
sumatranum, C. DC. in Prodr. XVI. i. 348; Hook. f. Fl. Br. 
Ind. V. 81. Cubeba swmatrana, Miq. Comm. Phyt. 42, tab. V, fig. A, 
Syst. Pip. 290, Fl. Ind. Bat. I. ii. 448, Suppl. 8. 
Penana: back of west hills, at 500 ft. altitude, Curtis 2256. 
Perak: Larut, at 500—1000 ft., a large creeper 40—60 ft. long, 
King’s Collector 6618; alt. 2000—2500 ft., King’s Collector 2901; 
Scortechini 165. Srnaapore: Reservoir Road, Ridley 4825.—D1stTRIB. 
Tenasserim, Andaman Islands, Sumatra. 
40. PrrER MucRONATUM, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 15 
(1912). Creeper; branches glabrous, drying brown, the spiciferous 
1 mm. thick. Leaves shortly petioled, glabrous; limb coriaceous 
when dry, up to about 10°5 cm. long and 4:2 mm. wide; oblong- 
elliptic, acutely and rather long acuminate, the base equilateral, 
obtuse; 5-plinerved, the central nerve emitting 2 opposite ascendent 
nerves from 10 mm. above the base and having on each side of it 
one ascendent nerve free from the base ; petiole 6 mm. long, sheath 
prolonged nearly up to the middle of the petiole. Pedunele glabrous, 
6mm.long. Spike: 9 nearly 21 cm. long ; rhachis puberulous ; bract 
glabrous, adnate, linear-oblong, obtuse at both ends. Jerry gla- 
brous, elliptic, 2 mm. long, attenuate at the top into a style, its stipe 
1 mm. long. 
SuncEI Usone: Ridley 2126. 
41. PIreER LONGIBRACTEUM, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. 
VI. 16 (1912). Branches glabrous, drying brown, the spiciferous 1-9 
mm, thick ; collenchyma libriform, in distinct bundles; a single cen- 
tral lysigenous canal. Leaves rather long-petioled, glabrous; limb 
elliptic-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, the base acute and equilateral, 
11-5 cm. long, 5—6 cm. wide; 7-plinerved, the central nerve emitting 2 
alternate ascendent nerves, the uppermost from 16 mm. above the 
base, and having on each side of it 2 ascendent nerves free from the 
base, the external much thinner and shorter than the others ; petiole 
slender, 12—16 mm. long, sheath basal. Peduncle glabrous, slender, 
16mm. long. Spike: 2? 10°5 cm. long; rhachis glabrous, 1 mm. thick ; 
bract glabrous, oblong-obovate, attenuate at the base, nearly 2:2 mm. 
long, sessile above its middle ; ovary free, glabrous; stigmas 4, ovate- 
acuminate. Berry stipitate, elliptic, black when dry, 4 mm. long, 
its stipe a little shorter. 
PeRAK : Maxwell’s hill, Wray 101. 
